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ble unto the Greek exprcffion concerning 

 Chrift in the n Canticles, looking 

 through the nets, which ours hath ren 

 dered, he looketh forth at the windows, 

 {hewing himfelfe through the lattejOfe ; 

 that is, partly feen and unleen, accor 

 ding to the vihble andinvifible fide of 

 his nature. To omit the noble reticulate 

 work, in the chapters of the pillars of 

 Solomon, with Lillies, and Pomegranats 

 upon a network ground $ and the Crati- 

 cula or grate through which the afties 

 fell in the altar of burnt offerings. 



That the networks and nets of antiqui 

 ty were little different in the form from 

 ours at preient, is confirmable from the 

 nets in the hands of the Retiarie gladia 

 tors, the proper combatants with the fe- 

 cutores. To omit the ancient Conopei- 

 onorgnatnet,ofthe Egyptians, the in 

 ventors of that Artifice : the rufhey la 

 byrinths of Theocritus $ the nofcgaynets, 

 which hung from the head under the no- 

 ftrils of Princes 5 and that uneafie meta 

 phor of Reticulum Jecoris, which fome ex 

 pound the lobe, we the caule above the 

 liver. As for that famous network of 



